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Daily Mail
38 minutes ago
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte reveals fan's vile taunt about his dead mother that reduced him to tears
Ketel Marte has revealed the vile insult about his late mother that was shouted from the stands and reduced the Arizona Diamondbacks star to tears. Earlier this week, Marte, 31, was seen weeping on the mound at Rate Field in Chicago after he was taunted during a game against the White Sox. His mother, Elpidia Valdez, died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic in 2017. A 22-year-old man was handed an indefinite ban by the team and Major League Baseball over the insult. After the game Diamondbacks manager Torey Luvollo refused to reveal what the fan had said. But Marte has now explained that they shouted: 'I sent your mom a text last night'. 'What happened was in the seventh inning, I came to bat. I'm ready at the plate and I hear this fan shouting. He was on top of the dugout,' Marte told @DannyBeisbol. 'He yelled at me, saying stuff about my mom. He was like, "I sent your mom a text last night." When everything happened with my mom, I was here in Chicago. I was in this city.' Later, Marte added: 'I think something needs to be done about the fans. It's getting out of hand. People always yell stuff at me, but never about my mom. People know that my mom passed away in an accident. But anyways, we're praying for him and his family, too. May God protect them and help him heal his heart. 'They're always yelling things at me, but I don't mind. But when it comes to my mom that's where the line gets crossed.' Luvollo was seen consoling Marte during a pitching change in Arizona's 4-1 loss. He pointed at the fan and appeared to shout: 'His mom died, you dumb f***. Dumb f***' 'It was a terrible moment,' Luvollo said afterwards. 'Fans are nasty, and fans go too far. I love my players, and I'm going to protect them.' Luvollo continued: 'I looked right at [Marte] when I heard...I looked right at him and he looked at the person, as well. 'He put his head down and I could tell it had an immediate impact on him, for sure... I just reacted as a dad would when I went out to change pitchers. I could see he was sobbing. It hurt.' The fan was later ejected. As reported by ESPN they expressed remorse and admitted to the inappropriate comments and will now be denied entry into all MLB stadiums until further notice. '[I told him], "I love you and I'm with you and we're all together and you're not alone. No matter what happens, no matter what was said or what you heard, that guy is an idiot. It shouldn't have an impact on you,"' said Lovullo, who has managed Marte since their first year together in Arizona in 2017. It was later that year that Marte's mother died in a car accident in their native Dominican Republic. 'I've known Ketel for nine years, and he's had some unbelievably great moments and some hardships, as well,' the Arizona manager continued. 'Some really, really tough moments in his life, and I know those. At the end of the day, we're human beings and we have emotions. I saw him hurting, and I wanted to protect him.' A versatile player and fan favorite in the Phoenix area, Marte comes from a baseball family and is actually married to Toronto Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s cousin.
Yahoo
an hour ago
- Yahoo
Suburban man charged in fatal stabbing aboard Blue Line train, police say
A Broadview man faces a murder charge in connection to a fatal stabbing earlier this week aboard a CTA Blue Line train, Chicago police announced Friday. Lawrence Strother, 66, faces a single count of first-degree murder tied to an attack that occurred on the Rosemont branch of the Blue Line aboard a train near the 5800 block of North River Road Wednesday evening, police said. Killed was Jason Rowinski, 42, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. An autopsy performed on Thursday determined he died of a stab wound to the lower extremity and was ruled a homicide. Police arrested Strother in the 9500 block of Technology Boulevard in Rosemont several hours after the attack. Authorities didn't say what they believe sparked the fatal stabbing. Strother is expected to appear before a judge for a detention hearing on Saturday.
Al Arabiya
an hour ago
- Sport
- Al Arabiya
Cubs' Kyle Tucker, Ryan Pressly Return to Daikin Park for First Time Since Astros Traded Them
Kyle Tucker and Ryan Pressly returned to Daikin Park on Friday for the first time since the Houston Astros traded them to the Chicago Cubs during the offseason and were greeted by a video tribute before the start of the game. The two stepped out of the Cubs' dugout and tipped their caps to the fans while getting a standing ovation. 'Obviously we are here to do our job and win some games, but it's nice to at least catch up with some of the guys over there that I played with for a while and been around, so it is cool in that sense,' Tucker said earlier. A three-time All-Star right fielder eligible for free agency after the season, the 28-year-old Tucker is hitting .287 with 16 home runs and 49 RBIs. He was swapped in December for outfielder Cam Smith, infielder Isaac Paredes, and right fielder Hayden Wesneski. Pressly, a 36-year-old right-hander, is 2–2 with five saves and a 3.90 ERA. The two-time All-Star closer was dealt in January for minor league right-hander Juan Bello. Tucker was part of Astros teams that reached six straight AL Championship Series and caught the final out of the 2022 World Series against Philadelphia. 'There's a lot of really good memories here,' Tucker said. 'We had a lot of success playing in this city and on this field. It's cool. The biggest thing is being around the guys in those moments.' Pressly earned the save in Game 6 of the 2022 World Series. 'A lot of memories were made out on that field,' Pressly said. 'A lot of lifetime friendships made on the other side as well. I always root for these guys. They were great teammates. I was super fortunate and blessed to share a clubhouse with a couple of those guys who are pretty much legends over there in this city.' Houston entered with an AL West-best 48–33 record, identical to the record of the NL Central-leading Cubs. 'Every time they lose someone they always seem to replace them with someone who is really good and kind of pick up the baton right behind them and keep winning. It's what they've been doing for the past decade now,' Pressly said of the Astros. 'It was fun to watch when I was on the team, but now that I'm not on the team it's not fun to watch. It's always been a good team. It's going to be fun.'
CBS News
2 hours ago
- CBS News
Chicago man charged with beating at least 4 people on the same day
A man has been charged with punching at least four people and knocking them to the ground on the same day earlier this week in the Loop, South Loop and Lakeview neighborhoods. Joshua Rowell, 36, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery in Cook County Circuit Court, and one count of forcible assault on a federal judicial employee in federal court in Chicago. According to a Chicago Police Department arrest report, Rowell was arrested shortly before 5 p.m. on Tuesday in the South Loop, after he attacked a 20-year-old woman on the street in the 900 block of South Wabash Avenue. Rowell allegedly punched the woman in the face, causing swelling and bruising, and fled the scene. Officers later spotted him near Roosevelt Road and Wabash, and took him into custody. Authorities later linked him to at least three other attacks on the same day. Cook County prosecutors said, around 8:45 a.m., a woman was walking her dog outside her home in the 600 block of West Waveland Avenue, when Rowell walked up and punched her in the head, causing her to drop her dog's leash and fall to the ground. Rowell then punched her several more times in the face and head while she was on a ground before running away. That victim suffered multiple injuries, including a broken nose, and a large cut under her eye that required multiple stitches. Prosecutors said he also attacked another victim outside the New York of Chicago high-rise apartment building in the 3600 block of North Lake Shore Drive as the victim was walking their dog the same day. Rowell was caught on video punching that victim at least nine times before running away. Further information on that attack, including the victim's age and gender, were not immediately available. Shortly before 4 p.m. the same day, Rowell allegedly walked up to a woman outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse at 219 S. Dearborn St., and punched her from behind. The victim, a courthouse employee, told U.S. Marshals she was taking a coffee break and talking on the phone when someone punched her in the side of the head and knocked her to the ground. Surveillance video from the courthouse showed Rowell approach her from behind and punch her before fleeing the scene. The victim suffered a concussion from the attack. Rowell made his first appearance on the state charges in Cook County on Thursday, and was ordered held at Cook County Jail while he awaits trial. He is due back in court on those charges on July 18. His first court appearance on the federal charges for the attack outside the Dirksen courthouse has not yet been scheduled. Chicago police said he has multiple felony convictions for domestic battery.
CBS News
2 hours ago
- CBS News
4 dead including pregnant mother, 5-year-old son in Chicago fire on West Side investigated as arson
Four people, including three members of a family, died in a fire in Chicago's Austin neighborhood early Thursday morning. The fourth victim was found on Friday. Family identified two of the victims as 32-year-old Regina Henry and her 5-year-old son Jacian. The family member said Regina Henry was three months pregnant at the time of her death. A 76-year-old man also died in the fire, but his name has not yet been shared. A fourth body was found Friday after firefighters were able to search a part of the rubble that was previously unreachable on Thursday. Family identified that person as Destiny Henry, Regina Henry's 28-year-old sister. The fire started just before 2 a.m. Thursday in the 5200 block of West North Avenue and was quickly upgraded to a 2-11 alarm. The blaze was eventually upgraded to a 3-11 alarm, calling approximately 140 firefighters to the scene. Firefighters used at least eight ladders to bring residents to safety from the flames. At least five people were pulled from the burning building's windows, and others escaped by the stairs or jumped from the building. Latyra Goodman said her cousin Destiny went back into the burning apartment building to get her 4-year-old son Kyle, not knowing someone else had already dropped the child out of a window to save him from the fire consuming their third-floor apartment. "If my cousin knew her son was already out of the window, she would have been here right now," Goodman said. "She takes care of her son," said her other cousin Andrea Boyd. "She loves her son, and you know, he's fighting." Boyd said Kyle Henry remains hospitalized on oxygen with a head injury. "We just ask you all to keep the family in your prayers," she said. Brad Cummings, 76, also died in the fire, Alderwoman Emma Mitts said. He was the editor of the Austin-based The Voice newspaper. "Know him very well, actually I knew him before I became alderman, probably about 50 years," she said. Mitts said Cummings' publication has been a fixture in the community for decades. It celebrated its 40th anniversary this year. "He's so active in the community. I just saw him Monday night and he wanted me to help him with a celebration for one of the Austin residents that was going to retire from the army," Mitts said. "He had been on me all week and he don't give up when he wants something and that's the way he is in advocating for the community." The fire is considered suspicious and an arson investigation continues at the building on Friday morning. Crews were seen searching the third floor of the building. AFT agents, state fire marshals, and specialized crews sifted through debris, zeroing in on a section of the third floor where family members say Destiny lived with her sister, who also died in the fire. Evidence collected at the scene with the assistance of agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been turned over to Chicago police detectives for a criminal investigation. Ald. Mitts said the fire was started by someone because of some sort of a domestic incident. Relatives of the Henry family members who died said someone threw Molotov cocktails through the windows before the fire started. Some residents said they heard gunshots before the fire started. Police and other law enforcement are still investigating the cause of the fire. A bullet was seen on the sidewalk outside the apartment building after the fire was gotten under control. More than two dozen people were displaced by the fire.
